[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:29:58 -0400, "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ben Hearsum <bhearsum at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Stateless client/server protocol would let us restart the master without
>> killing slave jobs, right? I totally freaking support that. +++++++
>
>/me counts plusses..
>
>Yes, and it would also probably allow non-python buildslaves.  I'm not
>totally sold on the idea -- Buildbot's existing use of PB is *really*
>solid and effective, and I had hoped to keep it.  I wonder if we could
>do both?  Eep.

Use of PB doesn't imply stateful clients or servers.  Also, use of PB
doesn't preclude support of other protocols better supported by other
languages.

Jean-Paul